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      <title>Tyre Safety Test</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:41:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/videos/featuresvideos/200827/tyre_tread_safety_shock.html</link>
      <author>Auto Express</author>
      <comments>Is 1.6 enough in the wet???</comments>
      <category>Road Safety</category>
      <description><![CDATA[The legal limit for a car tyres tread depth is 1.6 mm. This film asks if that is sufficient on wet roads. I think the answer is NO. 
Click on the Heading to take you to the link.]]></description>
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      <title>Leaving car keys in ignition.</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/publications/ombudsman-news/38/keys-in-car-38.htm</link>
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      <author>Financial Onbudsman</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Leaving your keys in the ignition e.g. while defrosting the car, can be a costly business. Will your insurance cover you for theft????
See some of the examples at the above location.]]></description>
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      <title>Parking with Headlights illuminated.</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:18:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>PGZ</author>
      <category>Road Safety</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Parking with headlights left illuminated, especially on the wrong side of the road seems to becoming more prevalent.
Not only is the practice illegal but it can, and has in the past cost lives.
When stopping at the roadside or parking just give a little thought to oncoming road users and switch to sidelights. ]]></description>
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      <title>Fuel Protests</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:46:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3054153.ece?&amp;EMC-Bltn=ZAQ1L4</link>
      <author>Times Online</author>
      <category>News</category>
      <description><![CDATA[The high price of oil is producing a £10 million daily windfall for the Treasury — enough to reduce the cost of fuel at the pump by 8p a litre, researchers have found. 
Road hauliers planning protests at oil refineries today will be dismayed to learn that in the past three months the Government has already received an extra £1 billion above its official forecasts for fuel tax revenues.........
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      <title>Towing??</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:21:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>Highways Agency</author>
      <category>Road Safety</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Fit To Tow?
Keep your trailer ready to go
If you’re taking to the roads with a caravan, trailer or horsebox, don’t set out without a final safety and maintenance check, especially if you leave it standing for most of the year.

Before setting out, make sure your trailer is properly serviced and fit to be on the road. Your trailer should be given a regular service by a reputable dealer.

Before you set off.........
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      <title>HA Winter Driving Advice</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:18:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>Highways Agency</author>
      <category>Road Safety</category>
      <description><![CDATA[The Highways Agency is responsible for England’s motorways and trunk roads. 

This guide is to help you with your journeys in severe weather, especially as it gets worse over winter. Inside, one of our Traffic Officers, Eris Robertson, tells you what he sees on our roads and gives his tips for getting you through bad weather safely.

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      <title>Road Casualties in Great Britain: Main Results: 2006</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:20:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/accidents/casualtiesmr/rcgbmainresults2006</link>
      <author>Dept for Transport</author>
      <category>Road Safety</category>
      <description><![CDATA[The main results show that

The number of people killed in road accidents fell by 1 per cent from 3,201 in 2005 to 3,172 in 2006. 31,845 people were killed or seriously injured in 2006, 1 per cent fewer than in 2005. There were 258,404 road casualties in Great Britain in 2006, 5 per cent less than in 2005.  
There were 189,161 road accidents involving personal injury in 2006, 5 per cent fewer than in 2005. Of these, 27,872 accidents involved death or serious injury, less than 1 per cent fewer than in 2005 (27,942). 
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      <title>Law reaches out to foreign drivers who dodge fines</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:04:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>PGZ</author>
      <category>Law</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Foreign drivers will be traced and forced to pay parking, bus lane and congestion charge fines, under a Government plan to address the problem of 700,000 unpaid penalties issued annually to vehicles that are registered overseas.

The Local Transport Bill, published yesterday, includes a provision to allow the DVLA to approach its counterparts in other countries to obtain the names and addresses of the registered owners of vehicles.

At present, local authorities are unable to gain access to the information and have to cancel most of the tickets that are issued to foreign drivers.

Bill Blakemore, head of the Sparks Programme, which was established by London councils to tackle the problem of penalty dodging by foreign drivers, said that there were 350,000 unpaid fines a year in the capital and a similar number in the rest of the country.

Some councils have experimented with clamping foreign vehicles to force them to pay. But this practice has been suspended after a driver from Luxembourg, who was clamped in East London, complained to the European Commission.

Mr Blakemore said that councils would still find difficulty, in some countries, in enforcing penalties once they had identified the driver.

Sparks is proposing a European-wide system of enforcement orders under which bailiffs could be employed by an authority in one country to collect fines in another.

Mr Blakemore said: “There is a hard core of foreign drivers who deliberately flout the law because they are invisible to the system. This provision will make it much easier to trace them.”
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      <title>Petrol rises to more than £1 a litre</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:59:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <link> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article2827707.ece</link>
      <author>Times On Line</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Average petrol prices have burst through the £1 a litre level for the first time this week as the surge in global oil price continued unabated. 

Average fuel prices rose to just under 101p on Tuesday, up more than 17 per cent from around 86p a year ago, according to the AA motoring organisation. In the past two months prices have climbed sharply, driven by the increasing global price of crude oil that exceeded $97 (£46) a barrel in trading in New York yesterday. 

The AA said that part of the blame for rising forecourt prices in Britain also lay with Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, who introduced a 2p per litre increase in fuel duty on October 1.Britain uses 69 million litres of petrol every day and Andrew Howard, a spokesman for AA, said that the government would receive £1.75 million per day from VAT on fuel. 

The AA said that there had also been an increase in the number of drivers who had filled their cars with the wrong type of fuel as they tried to find the lowest prices
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